I happened to be at a Starbucks today, and the registers had just stopped working even though they were still turned on. I got a free coffee. The barista was on the phone with their technical help and said the network system had somehow gone down. Saved me a small bit of cash. They put a sign on the store that that could serve no more.
The news later this evening: Starbucks: Computer Outage Disrupts Sales in US, Canada http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933 http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933 Starbucks: Computer Outage Disrupts Sales in US, Canada http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933 A computer outage affecting sales registers disrupted sales Friday at 8,000 company-operated Starbucks stores in the United States and Canada. Stores ... View on abcnews.go.com http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/starbucks-reports-register-outage-stores-us-canada-30571933 Preview by Yahoo
